PROJECT MANAGER OR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER DEPARTMENT OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Applications are invited for a project manager for an ecology of infectious disease project on agricultural development and human schistosomiasis. The project involves rigorous development and deployment of social surveys, environmental sampling and a field trial to explore the top-down and bottom- up effects of agricultural practices on schistosome (trematode) infections in aquatic snails and humans, as well as the effects of these practices on crop production. The candidate must speak French and be willing to spend substantial portions of the year in Senegal, Africa. Although we prefer candidates with PhDs, we are willing to consider candidates without PhDs who have prior experience. Ideal candidates will have skills/experience in several of the following areas: ecology/biology of infectious disease; epidemiological study design; human subjects research; field biology; hydrology or digital elevation modeling; GIS; social survey development; project management, ideally international in scope; environmental and ecological field methods, such as aquatic biodiversity sampling, water quality measurement or crop productivity assessment; conducting research in developing countries; statistical analysis; manuscript writing and communication of scientific results. The candidate must be highly organized, resourceful, creative, independent, hardworking, capable of working with and supervising a team, comfortable with fieldwork, and a strong English writer. This candidate will be a member of the laboratory of Dr. Jason Rohr (http://shell.cas.usf.edu/rohrlab/index.html) in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL; http://biology.usf.edu/ib/), but he/she will be part of a broader interdisciplinary team of empiricists and mathematical modelers from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Monash University, and Senegal. We are ultimately looking for the most promising and productive candidate whose skills most complement our present research team. The start date is flexible, but earlier start dates are preferred. Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, brief statement of research interests (<2 pages), and list of references as a single pdf to Dr. Jason Rohr ([email protected]) with the subject line of the email reading “Postdoc Application (insert last name)”. For example: Postdoc Application Smith. The position will remain open until filled.
